Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Poetry Madness: Game 7

Choose a winner for Game 7 tonight. Refer to the rubric in the previous post to remind yourself of the expectations. Be sure you are writing meaningful reasons for why you choose a poem.

26 comments:

EGT said...

Life Doesn't Frighten Me is about a person who has no fear in anything and nothing frightens that person. Lime if she/he would have said bears and sharks don't frighten me then that means those animals don't frighten them at all.

Some One was about a person who thought that some one was at their door but it was actually a beetle tapping the wall and a owl howling.

The one i mostly liked was Life Doesn't Frighten Me because some things frighten me and some don't but still some people might not be frightened of any thing.

KS said...

Life Doesn’t Frighten Me is about how nothing can scare me, how life doesn’t frighten me.

I think Some One is about when someone came knocking on the poet’s door.

My vote goes to Life Doesn’t Frighten Me because I like all the rhyming between “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me”. I liked how in the middle of the poem how the poet makes the scares go away, I also think a meaning might be that if you’re with God he will give you guidance so you don’t have to be scared.

cs said...

The first poem, Life Doesn’t Frighten Me At All, is about someone that keeps saying, “life doesn’t frighten me at all” and no mater what it is she is telling the truth.

The second poem, Some One, is about someone hearing something tapping on her door so she looks, but she saw nothing.

Out of these two poems, I have to choose, Life Doesn’t Frighten Me At All, as my favorite. I chose that because it has good rhyming words and good rhyming statement, also the statements relate to each other then it says, “life doesn’t frighten me at all”. Also, obviously, the girl in this poem is brave, but I think the true message is that God is always with you and you never have to be afraid.

The reason why I didn’t choose, ‘Some One” is because it needed a little more rhyming words and it wasn’t as meaningful as the other poem, but I did like the suspense and I like how the poem said,
Only the busy beetle,
Tap- tapping in the wall.

Anonymous said...

First I read Life doesn't Frighten me. Then Someone. Life doesn't Frighten me was about a girl who says no matter what happens, she won't be scared. Someone is about someone hearing a knock on their door, but there was only a beetle nearby.
I liked Life doesn't Frighten me better because I thought Someone was a little boring. Also, Someone was weird.

LA said...

I think the first poemLife does Not Frighten Me is about a person that can't seem to be frightened at all no matter what it is. The second poem Some One is about someone who was knocking on a door and the person answered it and no one is there kind of like ding dong ditching. The one I vote for is Life does not Frighten Me because it was more interesting in word choice and in just the poem in general.

JH said...

The first poem I read was Life Doesn't Frighten Me.It was about someone who isn't scared of anything and brave.
The second poem I read was Some One. It was about a woman who was scared and doesn't know who knocked at her door.
I chose Life Doesn't Frighten Me because I liked how she wasn't afraid of anything.

CB said...

Life doesn't frighten me is about how there are many things in life that you you have to over come things and in that story it tells how life doesn't frighten him/her.

Some one is about how someone came knocking the door and the person inside looked to the right and to the left but could not find anyone outside.

I like life doesn't frighten me because it rhyms and I have a text to world connection, Every body has to over come something in life.

SD said...

Life Doesn't Frighten Me is about a girl that is not afraid of any of the bad things in life. She is not afraid of anything from boys pulling her hair to lions on the loose. She must be very tolerant to be able to say those things. This poem was very emotional and it touched me. I really liked this poem.
Some One is about a person who lives in house and she thinks someone is knocking at her door. She opens the door and it on a beetle knocking on the wall. The person must have really wanted someone to be at the door. I can tell because she says at all three times at the end. I think this poem was sad.

I choose Life Doesn't Frighten Me because it is more emotional than the other poem. Both poems weren't exciting. I still liked them both. All good poems don't have to be intense. This was a hard decision, but Life Doesn’t Frighten Me will move on in the tournament.

PB said...

The first poem, life Doesn't Frighten me, is about a person that says the world does not frighten her at all. The main idea is the scary things that may scare other people but they do not scare that person.

The second poem, Some One, is about some one coming and knocking on her door with many background noises. The main idea of this poem is the beetle making the owner of the house opening the door to find the forest.

I choose Life Doesn't Frighten me to win yhis round.

MS said...

The first poem, Life Doesn't Frighten Me, is about someone who is saying that all the fears in life don't scare them.

The second poem, Some One, is about a person who is minding their own buisness when someone knocks on the door, but when the person comes to answer it no one is there.

I vote for Some One because it reminds me of ding-dong ditching. I liked the rhyming and line breaks in Some One.

Anonymous said...

I read Some One and it is about somone who came knocking on somones door in the night while the dew drops fall.

Life Dosn't Frighten Me is about a person who is not afraid of anything.

I chose Life Doesn't Frighten Me because it is really cool the form and the way it was written.

GS said...

Life Doesn't Frighten Me= Life Doesn't Frighten Me is about a girl saying nothing frightens her in life.

Someone= Someone is about a person who thought they heard someone at the door but it was only a beetle in the walls.

I like Life Doesn't Frighten Me because I love the plot and it rhyms so well. I also like how that after every sentence it says, they don't frighten me at all.

JL said...

The poem Life Doesn't Frighten Me is about someone being brave for Ghosts and other scary things like that.

The poem Some One is about something knocking on a persons door and it just turns out to be a little bug, or an owl on a tree.

I liked Life Doesn't Frighten Me because, it was about someone standing up to fake things like Dragons. I thought it had better descriptive language.

BW said...

Life Dosen't Frighten Me is about a kid saying that all the bad things in life don't make him afraid. Some One is about a noise that is tapping on someone's door, but it's just a bug. It was real close, but for me, Some One won. I liked the line breaks and rhyme.

Anonymous said...

The first poem, Life Doesn't Frighten Me, is about someone who isn't afraid of anything.

The second poem, Some One, is about someone who knocks on the door, but when the person opens the door no one is there.

The poem I chose was Life Doesn't Frighten Me because I liked the ability to visualize and the rhyming. I liked the ability to visualize because when I read it in my head the picture seemed real, and I liked the rhyming because it made the story more fun to read.

I also liked the word choice and the line breaks. I liked the word choice because if that was a real moment and I wrote about it I would use those words, and I liked the line breaks because it made it more like a song which I like.
I also have a question did that same experience happen to the author?

JS said...

the first poem,"Life Doesn't Frighten Me", is about someone telling the world that nothing frightens that person.

The second poem,"Some One", it's about some one who knocked on a persons door and left immdiately
after they knocked.

I choose,"Life Doesn't Frighten Me", because I like the way the words rhyme and the meaning of the story.

HS said...

The Poem Some one was really weird because it was about a person at a tiny door.

Life Doesn't Frighten Me was good because it tells you what does not frighten him.


I choose Life Doesn't frighten me because it had more description.

ES said...

The first poem, Life Doesn't Frighten Me, is about a person who can name almost everything in life that doesn't frighten her/him.
The second poem, Some One, is about a person who thought he/she heard a knock on the door but when she/he got up to check no one was there and it was just God and nature.
I chose the poem, Some One, because it had better poet's craft such as, way better punctuation and it rhymed. Other than that I could also make a text-self connection, it was "Sometimes I think I hear a noise, but it is really just the wind or someone walking loudly.

KP said...

I thought that the the first poem, Life Doesn't Frighten Me, is saying that even though there are very scary things in this world you should still try and be brave.
In the second poem, Some One, the character speaking in the poem hears a knock at the door and he goes and looks and finds only the creatures of the night. He was certain he heard someone , but he found nothing. My favorite poem is Life Doesn't Frighten Me because I can really relate to trying to pull through something that is dificult.

eb said...

The poem called Some One was about a person hearing a knocking sound at their door and so they go to answer it and no ones there and so they describe the only things they hear and see.

The second poem called Life Doesn't Frighten Me at All it is about a person talking about how there are things in life that are scary and how they are sometimes not as scary as they look, and the person says "it doesn't scare me at all"

I vote for Life Doesn't Frighten Me at All because, I think in a way it could be a life lesson saying somethings aren't as scary as they look and you don't need to be afraid of them.
I vote for Life

BT said...

The first poem, Life doesn't frighten me, is about a girl who isn't afraid of anything.

The second poem, Someone, is about a myterious knock on the door, in the end it turns out to be no one.

I think that Life doesn't frighten me is better because, it showed bravery(discriptive language) and I could connect to the poem in really deep ways.

PF said...

"Life Doesn't Frighten Me" is poem about a child who is afraid of a lot of things but is trying to convince himself that they're not.

The poem "Some One" is about a person who thinks they hear some one at the door, but it turns out that the mysterious noise is just the sound of nature.

I chose to vote for "Life Doesn't Frighten Me" because you can think of it in two ways: One, you can say that the child talking is really scared of all those things, except they're trying to convince himself they're not. Two, they could really not be scared of those things and they're bragging about how brave they are.

LL said...

Life dosen't frighten me is about someone listing all the things that don't frighten she/he.


Some one is about someone who knoked and then just left.


I choose Life dosen't frighten me because in my opinion its not to long. It was better in my opinion.

OO said...

Life doesn't frighten me at all is about someone saying that life doesn't frighten him.
Someone is about a person that thinks someone is at the door but no one is.
I vote for Life doesn't frighten me at all because of the great ryming

AEC said...

In the fist poem, Life Doesn't Frighten Me, is about a person who said,"life does not scare me even when it is scary and hard."


In the second poem, Some One, a person that thinks some one knocked on their door he looked but there was no one there but there was a bug on the door.

I liked, Life Doesn't Frighten Me, because it is saying that you should never give up no matter how hard and scary life can be. It also describes how the person feels and it makes me feel like her.

willp said...

Some one was about hearing somebody knock on his door and relizing that it was just nature.


Life doesn't frighten me was about someone who says that he is not frightened by life, and only frightened in his dreams.


I choose Life doesn't frighten me because i like the way it was written.